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leondaltons · 1 year

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oc’s body language ♡

thank you erin my love @narrativefoiltrope for tagging me♥ tagging: @sysba @sussoro @griffin-wood @risingsh0t @indorilnerevarine @umbertors and @moderarato and anyone else!!! <3

— rules: always, never, sometimes

Mia - Infamous

DEFENSIVENESS.

arms crossed on chest / crossing legs / fist-like gestures / pointing index finger / karate chops / stiffening of shoulders / tense posture / curling of lip / baring of teeth

REFLECTIVE.

hand-to-face gestures / head tilted / stroking chin / peering over glasses / taking glasses off; cleaning / putting earpiece of glasses in mouth / pipe smoker gestures / putting hand to bridge of nose / pursed lips / knitted brows

SUSPICION.

arms crossed / sideways glance / touching or rubbing nose / rubbing eyes / hands resting on weapon / brows raising / lips pressing into a thin line / strict, unwavering eye contact / wrinkling of nose / narrowed eyes

CONFIDENCE.

hands behind back / hands on lapels of coat / steepled hands / baring teeth in a grin / rolling shoulders / tipping head back but maintaining eye contact / chest puffed up / shoulders back / arms folded just above navel / wide eyes / standing akimbo

INSECURITY & ANXIETY.

chewing pen or pencil / rubbing thumb over opposite thumb / biting fingernails / biting lips / hands in pockets / elbow bent / closed gestures / clearing throat / “whew” sound / picking or pinching flesh / fidgeting in chair / hand covering mouth whilst speaking / poor eye contact / tugging pants whilst seated / jingling money in pockets / tugging at ear / perspiring hands / playing with hair / swaying / playing with pointer; marker; cane / smacking lips / sighing / rocking on balls of feet / flexing or cracking fingers sporadically

ANGER & FRUSTRATION.

short breaths / “tsk” sounds / tightly-clenched hands / fist-like gestures / pointing index finger / rubbing hand through hair / rubbing back of neck / snarling / revealing teeth / grimacing / sharp-eye glowers / notable tension in brow / shoulders back, head up; defensive posturing / clenching of jaw / grinding teeth / nostrils flaring / heavy exhales

Utana - College Tennis

DEFENSIVENESS.

arms crossed on chest / crossing legs / fist-like gestures / pointing index finger / karate chops / stiffening of shoulders / tense posture / curling of lip / baring of teeth

REFLECTIVE.

SUSPICION.

CONFIDENCE.

INSECURITY & ANXIETY.

ANGER & FRUSTRATION.

Evander - The Exile

DEFENSIVENESS.

arms crossed on chest / crossing legs / fist-like gestures / pointing index finger / karate chops / stiffening of shoulders / tense posture / curling of lip / baring of teeth

REFLECTIVE.

SUSPICION.

CONFIDENCE.

INSECURITY & ANXIETY.

ANGER & FRUSTRATION.

Nina - KOTSAM

DEFENSIVENESS.

arms crossed on chest / crossing legs / fist-like gestures / pointing index finger / karate chops / stiffening of shoulders / tense posture / curling of lip / baring of teeth

REFLECTIVE.

SUSPICION.

CONFIDENCE.

INSECURITY & ANXIETY.

ANGER & FRUSTRATION.

#text #this was fun!!!#thank you so much ♥#i actually had to think about some of them for a while looooooooool #infamous: mia lennox #college tennis: utana #exile: evander #kotsam: nina

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traeumenvonbuechern · 1 year

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Historical Romances by Black Authors

Aphrodite wishes to escape the marriage mart but will a second chance with the elusive Duke of Everely change her mind? Aphrodite Du Bell is a diamond of the first water and a favourite of the queen. But her renowned loveliness didn't stop the love of her life, Evander Eagleman, from jilting her and marrying another woman four years ago. Aphrodite has been in self-imposed exile ever since. However, when her formidable mother summons her back to London Aphrodite has no choice but to acquiesce. Upon her return, Aphrodite learns that the newly widowed Evander is in town and, despite her best efforts, the grand society events of the season repeatedly push them together. With each encounter, Aphrodite's traitorous feelings make it perfectly clear that the Duke still holds court over her heart. Why did Evander cast Aphrodite aside all those years ago, and now that they have a second chance, can the couple make strides to mend past hurts?

Ailsa Connery has waited three long years to finally escape her enslavement at Stirling Castle and reunite with her clan. But her carefully laid plans are completely destroyed by the arrival of the infamous Highland warrior known as Dubh Mahoun, the Black Devil…who has plans of his own. Kallum MacNeill's fearsome reputation has long allowed him to keep hidden his secret double life of freeing enslaved captives across the land. It's only when he kidnaps a servant lass—quite by accident—that he finds himself facing a wee predicament. He must accompany the lass home or risk her exposing his true identity. It'd be easy enough…if the feisty hellion didn't fight him at every turn. As they make their way to the Highlands, the perils the two must face are surpassed only by their constant sparring. Soon, their heated sniping sparks heat of a totally different kind. The kind that ignites a hunger that could consume them both. Yet the difficult journey is no match for the dangerous secrets they're about to uncover.

The first novel in USA Today Bestselling Author Beverly Jenkins’s compelling new series follows a Northern woman south in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War . . . Valinda Lacy’s mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life—and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a deeply personal interest in rebuilding the city. Raised by strong women, he recognizes Valinda’s determination. And he can’t stop admiring—or wanting—her. But when Valinda’s father demands she return home to marry a man she doesn’t love, her daring rebellion draws Drake into an irresistible intrigue.

A fun and feminist Regency romp from a master of the genre hailed as "a delight" by Bridgerton author Julia Quinn. Nothing happens in London without Graham Wynchester knowing. His massive collection of intelligence is invaluable to his family’s mission of aiding those most in need. So when he deciphers a series of coded messages in the scandal sheets, Graham’s convinced he must come to a royal’s rescue. But his quarry turns out not to be a princess at all… The captivating Kunigunde de Heusch is anything but a damsel in distress, and the last thing she wants is Graham’s help. All her life, Kuni trained alongside the fiercest Royal Guardsmen in her family, secretly planning to become her country’s first Royal Guardswoman. This mission in London is a chance to prove herself worthy without help from a man, not even one as devilishly handsome as Graham. To her surprise, Graham believes in her dream as much as she does, which makes it harder to resist kissing him…and falling in love. But how can she risk her heart if her future lies an ocean away?

Jane Austen meets The Princess and the Frog For as long as Prairie can remember, living in paradise has been boring. Her days are filled with helping at her family's resort, sewing, daydreaming, and observing fashionable guests from the sidelines. But when a fairytale-Esque opportunity arises, she does something out of character and agrees to marry a man she's never met. Suddenly, she's navigating a new life that is a world and an ocean away from everything she's ever known. Her new husband, Wright, is decidedly Mr. Wrong. If there's a schedule, he'll ignore it. If there is a rule, he'll break it. If there's a risk, he'll take it. Has the girl who has always had a plan finally met her match? If you're a fan of TV shows like 'Vanity Fair', 'Bridgerton' and 'The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' or enjoy reading comedies of manners, you'll love 'That, My Dear, Is Love.' This is a full-length, standalone novel featuring a diverse ensemble cast, whimsical magic, and hilarious misadventures. This is a clean romance with a HEA. Featuring some of your favorite tropes: Marriage of Convenience Opposites Attract Reformed Rake

The Davenports delivers a totally escapist, swoon-worthy romance while offering a glimpse into a period of African American history often overlooked. The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago. Now it's 1910, and the Davenports live surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, finding their way and finding love—even where they’re not supposed to. There is Olivia, the beautiful elder Davenport daughter, ready to do her duty by getting married . . . until she meets the charismatic civil rights leader Washington DeWight and sparks fly. The younger daughter, Helen, is more interested in fixing cars than falling in love—unless it’s with her sister’s suitor. Amy-Rose, the childhood friend turned maid to the Davenport sisters, dreams of opening her own business—and marrying the one man she could never be with, Olivia and Helen’s brother, John. But Olivia’s best friend, Ruby, also has her sights set on John Davenport, though she can’t seem to keep his interest . . . until family pressure has her scheming to win his heart, just as someone else wins hers. Inspired by the real-life story of the Patterson family, The Davenports is the tale of four determined and passionate young Black women discovering the courage to steer their own path in life—and love.

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agirlandherquill · 4 months

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Ruin's Reprisal - WIP Intro

I was recently tagged by the lovely @mysticstarlightduck in a post of theirs and it inspired me so much I thought I'd put my own spin on it for my novel!

rules are simple, or to my mind, easily breakable (not that I will, because this rule is so broad and so fun) - pick a WIP and post something about it!

so without further ado, here's my WIP Intro!

Title - Ruin's Reprisal

Genre - Fantasy/High-Fantasy (if that's still a thing, sure hope so)

Tags - (ought to come up with some, shouldn't I? ah, well, I'll update this when I do!)

Synopsis - like me with my edits on the manuscript, it's a work in progress

Disgrace. Servant. Murderer.

Three people with nothing in common, except that they were wronged.

And now, they’re willing to do whatever it takes to make things right. Which means taking the one thing that their society rests on; its sins, its saints, its deaths and broken dreams.

The unlikely band of criminals are going to steal the crown.

Everything depends on one heist. Take the crown. Free themselves.

Will any of them survive? Or will they fall to the country that took everything from them?

Only time will tell.

And they’re running out of it.

Plot Features, Tropes, A Little Warning Of The Chaos You'll Find

Heist. One big, life-risking, soul-aching heist

I killed for you. Because of you.

Life-saving debt, and then some

Royalty, a Court, and gut-wrenching normality - add a hint of rebellion while you're at it

Gifts and Curses, what's the difference?

My heart is in your hands, literally.

Morally Grey Characters

Deniable Feelings

Lies, lies, lies

A Wedding and A Funeral

I'm going to die. I AM GOING TO DIE.

Ballroom dances. Need I say more?

We had a plan. We had many plans. What now?

You love me. You won't hurt me.

Sacrifice

You made me feel. I need you to stop. I need you to break me because I cannot do it myself.

The Crown was never yours, it's mine.

You were supposed to come to me, to be with me, and I'd have made it all stop.

Slow-burn - light that fire, watch it burn

Limping into battle - best idea I've ever had.

Revenge. Revenge. Revenge.

He broke you? I'll destroy him.

I have hated you since the day I met you, and it still isn't enough.

Heroes and Villains

Light and Dark

Framing for a crime

Who knew a letter could destroy everything?

Character Portraits

Edeva Vitaire - Once a woman with everything: title, gowns, respect, the lot, now she is nothing more than an Exilza, someone exiled to the Half-Lands for a crime she did not commit. Edeva has learned the hardest of ways how someone can lose everything, and she knows what to sacrifice for revenge - she wants her mother's killer more than she wants her innocence restored, and she has only learned to survive in the wilds this long because of it. Mild-mannered by birth, spine steeled by survival, Edeva will do whatever it takes to get answers, even if it means partnering with the last person in the world she would want to help her.

Lucien Vaisey - Trained from birth to serve and protect the Alvarros, Aliria's Royal Family, Lucien understands duty more than most, and what it costs. His sword is at the mercy of other's commands, except when it comes to protecting those he cares for, then, this soldier truly becomes something fearsome.

Fenley Evander - Outcast by nature, damned in soul, Fenley is one of the few with a stomach for violence, and the darkened desire to do something with it. He kills for coin, to maintain a balance in the world, but there is no balance in himself. Plagued by a power deemed unnatural, Fenley is forced to hide his true nature, until the time calls for it. A dangerous man as ever lived, Fenley does not mourn for where his afterlife lies, instead he devours the fear others bestow upon him. He feeds the emptiness inside, and still he continues to hunger for something far harsher than violence - revenge, and to obtain it, he will stoop to wretched depths - manipulation, murder, and even betrayal - no man, nor woman, on this earth can possibly get in his way.

Chapters!

Part One:

Hunt & Hunter

Monsters & Mavericks

Saviour & Solace

Ashes & Absolution

Murders & Markets

Blood & Bravery

Cabins & Crime

Invitations & Irritation

Farewell & Forever

Emancipation & Exile

Puppet & Puppeteer

Part Two (this is as far as I've got with edits and changing chapter names so far, I'll update when I get more done)

Dance of Dismay

Lament of Larkhill

Rumours of Rage

Night of Nothing

Aches of Affliction

Trials of Twilight

Climb of Contemplation

Death of Diplomacy

My Inspiration!

This section is simply me getting to ramble about the things that stoked the fires of my imagination - movies, books, shows - songs, all the works! (as and when i recall/think of more, i'll add them to the list)

The Cruel Prince - had to go far into the depths of my memory for this one, but it was this series that truly got me invested in the likes of Fae and that sort of fantasy, and I took a lot of inspo from that! (in the early days, the Haelish were Fae but I wanted to go outside of that character stereotype and create my own fantasy bloodline/species, for lack of a better word)

Throne of Glass - to this day i'm still in awe of the world, the plot, the characters, everything and though i've only read it once parts of it have stuck with me

Six of Crows - the heist aspect of my novel shockingly came about before i'd read this but it certainly helped that part of the plot along

Red Queen - the villain of my novel, not saying who because who enjoys massive spoilers? (spoiler alert - not me), was deeply, deeply inspired from this series - I'd wager it was the first fantasy novel I'd read that gave me an insight into a truly 'dark' character, and I loved that, and of course, I used it as inspiration and to this day I am still torn between preferring a villainous character to a hero - it's one of the tropes I really, really enjoy

Far From Home by Sam Tinnesz - this was one of the very first songs I'd found for my initial writing playlist, and it's been played many, many times since

Lovely by Fleurie and Tommee Profitt - this embodied the regality and the tension that takes place in so many parts of my story, it was impossible not to be inspired

To Be Alone by Hozier - my ears will never forgive me for this, but it's true of any Hozier song, but this is one of my favourites

Pirates of the Caribbean - grew up watching these repeatedly, needless to say some of the characters did give me inspiration

The Mummy - one of my absolute favourite movies of all time, Rick O'Connell's attitude was an important factor for me to take inspiration from, he's such an interesting character

#writeblr #wip intro

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bloody-wonder · 4 months

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starting new series

in order to balance my reading i like to track the progress i'm making with old series vs how many new series i'm starting. my loose goal is usually to finish/catch up on at least five and start at least ten new series in a year - which turns out isn't as difficult as it sounds bc we're not even halfway through the year yet and i already hit the latter mark! here's an overview of what i read and my opinions :)

series that were so good i immediately read all the books available:

doctrine of labyrinths by sarah monette (book one: mélusine). okay so this was life-changing. not sarah monette inventing dark aroace romantasy in 2005! they hated her for her slay so much she had to start writing cozy fantasy under a pen name! this story is so weird and unique i honestly have no idea how to pitch it except to say that fans of books like the locked tomb, mdzs and captive prince will very likely enjoy it too. the fact that it's not a depraved booklr cult classic by now is a travesty. but we can still make it happen so if you fall into this particular reader category (and wouldn't be put off by the fact that someone may or may not want to fuck his brother a little bit) please do yourself a favor and read this series! check the trigger warnings first tho

the cemeteries of amalo by katherine addison (book one: the witness for the dead). i liked the goblin emperor, didn't love it, but after binging doctrine of labyrinths in less than a week i sorely needed a cure for my book hangover so i decided to pick up this spinoff series and wouldn't you know it - i binged it too lol. ig february was my monette/addison era. amalo felt like course correction after the goblin emperor and, while it's set in the same world and written in the same tone as that book, many of its aspects reminded me more of doctrine of labyrinths which is probably why i ended up liking it more - and was surprised by that too since i typically don't like this slow meditative writing style in fantasy but ig sarah monette just brings a certain je ne sais quoi to her books (emotional whump). the third book is coming out next march and i'm very excited to see what the saddest gay priest detective will do next👀

the stolen heir duology by holly black. to be completely honest i don't think these books are necessary. ig it was cool to return to elfhame several years post tfota and see some of my favorite ya fantasy characters from outsider pov but i found the main couple quite bland, especially in the second book where they are predictably overshadowed by jude & cardan in every respect. jude & cardan are simply The Power Couple, i love them and i appreciated the opportunity to revisit them in their 20s. madoc, everyone's favorite worst dad, has some nice scenes too but apart from that this installment was neither adventurous nor action-packed nor particularly romantic. it's clear now that holly black plans to continue writing in the elfhame universe and i sincerely hope she will try to shake things up by going full adult and/or changing the genre (i have this galaxybrain idea of a wwdits style mockumentary about madoc's exile in the human world which i'm trying to telepathically plant in holly black's brain as we speak)

evander mills by lev a. c. rosen (book one: lavender house). lavender house was the first book i read this year - i picked it up on a whim, honestly not expecting much, but ended up liking it a lot. in many respects it's a pretty basic closed circle murder mystery but with an all queer cast, whereas the second book has our gay detective investigating blackmail. the fact that the story takes place in the (homophobic) 50s and the queer victims are not protected by the law whatsoever adds an interesting spin to the whole idea of seeking and serving justice. i never thought i'm a serialized detective story type of person but ig if you make it queer enough i'll read anything lol so now i'm eagerly awaiting the next andy mills mystery which will come out in fall.

series i'm maybe going to continue reading later:

aubrey & maturin by patrick o'brian (book one: master and commander). seeing all the old man yaoi on a boat memes on tumblr rapidly propelled this series to the top of my tbr. now i have finally read the first book and,, liked it? lol idk the prose was very good, aubrey & maturin's friendship was sweet and the reading experience was cozy, with funny moments here and there, but overall i wasn't gripped by the plot nor did i particularly connect to the characters. i'm glad i read it but rn i'm not planning to continue this (extremely long) series any time soon. the book did have a delightful nautical atmosphere tho so there's a chance i might return to aubrey & maturin's adventures one day, if the mood strikes

page & sommers by cat sebastian (book one: hither, page). this one i didn't like at all tbh. i think cat sebastian just isn't the author for me and i should quit trying to read her books. however, i am both blessed and plagued by completionism and this series only has two books so i might read the second one this year just to appease my demons lol

series i'm not going to continue:

adam binder by david r. slayton (book one: white trash warlock). someone on tumblr recced this book to me ages ago and i wanted to read it ever since - purely bc of the title tbh😅 something i failed to consider tho is that urban fantasy is probably my least favorite subgenre of fantasy. and this book unfortunately didn't feature any memorable character moments or mind-blowing plot bits that could have broken through my unimpressedness with the urban fantasy setting🤷‍♀️

rook & rose by m. a. carrick (book one: the mask of mirrors). okay now we're entering the Dislike & Disappoint territory. i got interested in this series bc i heard it being compared to gentleman bastard but the similarities end at the renaissance venice setting and a conperson protagonist. the mask of mirrors completely lacks the rizz and swagger of scott lynch's writing and its characters just don't have the oomph of locke lamora and his team. so that was disappointing. on top of that the book is extremely long and convoluted with a worldbuilding that bothered me a lot and i couldn't put my finger on why until i read the themes section on its wiki page - ah yes, the us politics, again, using a foreign setting as a window dressing, again. listen, ik the us politics are important for the us authors to write about but when i pick up a book inspired by the italian renaissance what i want to get is themes and motifs representative of that time and place, even if we modernize them by (honestly lackluster) queernormativity and gender equality. i was mildly curious about the identity of the rook but now that it's been revealed i see no reason to continue this series.

the masquerade by seth dickinson (book one: the traitor baru cormorant). i intended to finish this book last year and leave it there but it was so unbelievably boring it put me into a reading slump for like two whole weeks and i ended up finishing it in january. i noticed that books about colonialism often try so hard to strike this solemn literary tone and say something profound that characters and plot just get bulldozed over by that dedication to conveying this very serious theme. admittedly, baru isn't as bad as that - i'm just biased bc she was pitched to me as a character in the same category as lymond and tyrion lannister so i was disappointed on that account seeing as it was the only reason i decided to give this book a try. i will say the general concept of the story and the plot twist at the end were indeed good but the overall reading experience was so aggressively meh that they just weren't worth it for me and so when the Big Thing happened i was still underwhelmed.

emily wilde by heather fawcett (book one: emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries). i wrote a long ass goodreads review about why i disliked this book so much but let's see if i can be concise for once (ha, as if). i'm a big fan of olivia atwater's books so based on all the buzz around emily wilde i thought i was picking up a similar faerie story. turns out this was more like an "elevated" cozy fantasy version of ali hazelwood's books featuring howl in leather pants (tweed pants?). where atwater uses faerie tale tropes and fae lore to explore classism, neurodivergence and nuanced romantic and platonic connections, fawcett seems to write from a perspective that is decidedly normative. just like emily wilde, half a soul has a heroine who reads as neurodivergent but the narrative is always firmly on her side, whereas the moral in emily wilde seems to be that she has to smile and socialize more or smth. just like emily wilde, a thousand stitches features a faerie as a love interest but in this case he indeed reads like a whimsical magical being, so similar to humans and yet so different at the same time, whereas mr cheap howl knockoff reads like a quirky human man who is an asshole sometimes and can do magic. atwater's books are fairly popular but emily wilde is the book that has mass appeal and ig i shouldn't really be surprised bc when have the stories that question the status quo ever have been more popular than the ones that reinforce it? so i'm not really surprised but i am bitter. this book left a sour taste in my mouth and made me feel really bad about myself which was something i hadn't reckoned with when i picked up this cozy fantasy. tbh i initially was going to masochistically read the sequel out of morbid curiosity but then i remembered that i can read literally anything else instead lol the hater gods spared me just for once😅

2024 reading updates | goodreads

#book tag #2024 reading updates #might as well actually start blogging about the books i read lol #please ask me what aroace romantasy is😅#so i want to do these recaps partly bc i want to find patterns in what i like and dislike #and so far the pattern in the dislike section seems to be #this was recced to me with xyz comp titles but utterly failed to live up to those comparisons #i wonder what conclusions i can draw from this lol

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frizzle-mcshizzle · 8 months

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!!!!!!! OKAY WOW I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS

about Amias and Regaila; did amais actively dislike josie or was he mostly indifferent to her? and how would that affect the way he parented her compared to regaila?

(i'm enraptured with this story now but I'll try not to spam you with asks lol)

(als BABY JOSIE!!!! SHE WAS SO CUTE OMG SHE'S SO TINY AND BABY. i have a few questions about her design but I'm trying not to flood your inbox haha. ALSO I'M IN LOVE WITH HER OUTFIT)

FLOOD MY INOBX, PLEASE, IM BEGGING YOU, IT IS LITERALLY WHAT I WANT i miss getting tons of asks

at first he was indifferent, just like ok this is my kid now I guess? it doesn't matter of being around her reminds him what he lost or that hes not ready for another kid. she makes my wife happy so thats all that matters.

he cared about her but not as much as you should about your own child, burshed her off a lot didn't spend a lot of time with her, he thought of her as Regaila's daughter not his

when she had an allergic reaction when she was three he was genuinely terrified, he may not have loved her as much as he should but he didn't want to lose another child, she only because Forkle did end up helping in a disguise and making sure she didn't die, but both he and Regaila refused to ever give her another exiler so they wouldn't risk losing her again.

But as she got older she started to act oddly, would stare at Callista and Evander's wanderlings and ask people if they could hear them singing, which confused everyone because only Gnomes could hear the songs, she would write notes in a "secret code" that Amais recognized from his father's papers from the council but couldn't remember what they where for. the way animals seemed to just a little to friendly to her. she knew the names of every star because of all that she was mostly unpopular with the kids outside her family because they thought she was strange, so she mostly hung out with her cousins, and Amais just kinda brushed it off when she was picked on telling her shes gotta be tough.

when she manifests as a telepath at nine rumors start going around about how she’s some kind of weapon that was made by the council especially after people realize telepaths can't get her mind. (when originally the only rumor about her origin was that she was Oralie and Kenrics illegitimate child) some people around them even mention project moonlark. Ideila Cyrus and Regaila acknowledge to her that she’s possibly something like that, but tell Josie if that’s true whatever she was made for they won’t let them hurt or use her.

around that time Amias starts to actually say that Josie is not his kid when Josie and Regaila arnt around when people ask and just say she’s his wife’s kid, and when Josie overhears him saying that to some of his friends sue realizes he doesn’t love her for the first time. Josie goes to Regaila about it but shes is in denial for a bit before trying to convince him that Josie is still his child, because she loves them both, and Amias loves her, so he just had to learn to love Josie.

she pushes them to spend more time together and it really doesn't go anywhere, Amais just stops denying that Josie is his daughter because it upsets Regaila not because of it's effects on Josie.

When Josie is ten Regaila gets pregnant, she doesn’t tell Amais for a bit because she doesn’t know how he will react considering he still doesn’t accept Josie and its been ten years.

while Regaila is out with Athena asking her how to tell Amias asking her how to tell Amias shes pregnant, Amias goes in the tent exhausted and relaxes in his "room" leaving Josie watching T.v in the largest part of the tent. someone comes to the door for some arbitrary reason and Josie answers it and says her dad is in his room.

after Amias deals with the person at the door he turns to Josie and tells her to stop telling people he’s her dad because he’s not, Josie asks what he means. Amias tells her he just "only let Regaila adopt her because it made her happy to have a baby again and all he wanted was for her to be happy, he didn’t want another kid, he just wants his baby back, but that wasn’t going to happen, so he made a sacrifice for her sake. but he didn’t sign up for some thing who stares at trees and draws odd symbols in the dirt. and he definitely didn’t sign up for a kid who manifests four years early and who’s mind no telepath can get into."

Josie starts crying and saying she'll try to be normal promising nit to use her ability until the normal manifestation age. Amias starts scolding her saying it’s impossible for her and it escalates to the point that Josie manifests as a inflictor and inflicts on him. they both collapse and when Josie snaps out of it and runs over to him and starts shaking him trying to wake him up, when he comes to he shoves her away and tells her to stay away from him, she scoots closer crying and says “dad, i didn’t mean to hurt you!” and he backs away and says “i’m not your dad get away from me!!”

Josie starts crying harder and she starts to spark again and Amias realizes whats coming and runs to his and Regaila’s room and zipps the door shut, Josie follows him to the door and keeps apologizing through it but he keeps yelling at her to shut up and stay away from him sounding completely terrified of her.

Regaila comes home because of all the commotion and finds her 10 year daughter curled up at the door apologizing to her husband and promising she would be normal over and over.

Regaila scoops up her up and takes her to the couch and asks her what happened and Josie is to upset to explain properly so Regaila gets her to transmit the memory of what happened to her and Regaila is pissed, she takes Josie over to Idelia’s house and leaves her there over night while she and Amias talk (fight).

Amias spends the time trying to convince Reagila to leave Josie and they can move to a new village and start a new life there, because Josie is dangerous and not even their child.

Regaila spends the time trying to convince him that Josie isn’t dangerous, and she is their new life. But Amias doesn’t agree and ends up saying that Josie is monster who attacked him, Regaila says she wasn’t trying to but Amias is insistent that she did it on purpose. Regaila ends up kicking him out of her house and telling him to find somewhere new to live, not even mentioning her pregnancy because she didn’t trust him with how hes treating Josie.

they try to convince each other to change their mind for several months, Josie staying with her family during the late nights that her parents are talking thinking to herself how she definitely ruined her parents marriage

at the end of the few months Regaila picks up Josie from Idelia's tent and takes her home telling her that "Amias is gone and he won't be able to treat her like that anymore, apologizing for not noticing sooner and telling her that she loves her, and no matter how many abilities she manifests she won't stop loving her" trying to hide the fact that she’s upset about it but Josie notices she’s upset and reads her mind and finds out about the conversation and gets upset again almost enough to inflict and Regaila tells her "it wasn’t her fault, but thats why she shouldn't read people's minds, sometimes you're not being told information to protect you"

#i already had this half written #thats why it took way less time #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #twin sophie! au #josie lore #thanks for the ask!

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house tatlonghari of ul'dah is a family of rich history. tracing their noble roots back to the kingdom of dalmasca, the house's young heir and progenitor troilus was exiled after being accused of heresy, his family's ties to the sect of germonique ultimately causing his banishment. troilus left behind his homeland and traveled west to eorzea and settled in the city of ul'dah, and he quickly found a new home in a community of dalmascan expats, noble and commoner. it was there that the start of his dynasty prospered and expanded. troilus staked his claim in the world of goldsmithing, and soon he became famous for his intricate metalwork and close attention to detail, dazzling even the sultan of his day with his handiwork. the name 'tatlonghari' was thus placed among the elite, their profound wealth and philanthropy even earning them a seat with the syndicate at one point. but times are changing. with his great-grandson priam, a shrewd man of seventy-one winters, refusing to pass the torch of the position of both head of the household and family business, the once glittering house of gold is starting to tarnish. the unfortunate passing of his wife hecuba shortly after the joyous arrival of his youngest child idomeneus was the first of many tragedies and scandals. the birth of his bastard grandchild evander, his firstborn child andromache's suspicious disappearance shortly before her betrothal, the untimely deaths of his other daughter briseis and her husband, the disownment of idomeneus, the shocking arrival of another bastard named paris, and the five years worth of dwindling resources and finances after the realm-shattering calamity threatens to unravel the tight weave of control priam held over the family. with his overweening sycophant of a son deiphobus as his only ally, the only person left to question his authority is his only living daughter cassandra, her fantastical premonitions often falling on deaf ears. as the world heads into a new age of uncertainty, the fate of the noble house of tatlonghari is approaching certain oblivion.

#ffxivsnaps #gposers #ffxiv gpose #hyur #ffxiv oc #this has been in my head for so long and it didn't really come out the way i wanted it #from l to r up top: priam / cassandra / deiphobus / idomeneus #not shown: priam's wife (dead) / andromache (presumed dead) / briseis (dead)#yes cassandra has the echo. no one believes her tho :^)#i didn't include the grandchildren #yea there's dalmascans in ul'dah. my city now #q.#mygposes.

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yankbarry · 1 year

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Christian and Muslim Refugees Saved by Yank Barry

Yank Barry has saved 1,218 Muslim and Christian refugees who have fled violence and volatility in their home countries of Syria, Iran, and Iraq. He is Jewish and a successful international Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was best known as the lead singer of ‘The Kingsmen’ which produced the pop culture classic ‘Louie, Louie.’

Today, Barry, both as an individual and as the co-founder of the not-for-profit Global Village Champions Foundation (GVCF), focuses on relieving the plight of refugees fleeing oppression and landing in nearby Bulgaria seeking safety and shelter. At a news conference in Bulgaria, Nikolay Chirpanliev, president of the State Refugee Agency in Bulgaria, praised Barry through a translator. “Barry and GVCF have focused their efforts on helping those who need help the most: sick people, families with lots of kids, those traumatized by war and lost relatives,” said Chirpanliev. Locals in Bulgaria have dubbed Barry the “Jewish Schindler,” a term picked up by The Jerusalem Post.

During World War II, Oskar Schindler, who was not Jewish, saved 1,200 Jews from death at the hands of the Nazis. Barry, while aware of the comparisons, does not equate himself to Schindler, but says the 1,218 number is significant. “Eighteen in Hebrew means life, life for 1,218 people,” said Barry.

Barry is accountable for each refugee released into GVCF care, ensuring they become contributing members of Bulgarian society. He agrees to provide essentials such as food, shelter, clothing, and health care coverage. Also, he gives extras like toys for children, language classes, and opportunities for adults.

Barry’s mission is to give exiles a chance to rebuild their lives. Barry and his not-for-profit also supply the daily food needs of the more than 5,000 refugees in seven Bulgarian camps. “I see him as an ally who considers our problem as his own," added Chirpanliev. “Nobody else has done this much to help Bulgaria in this crisis; we can’t be thankful enough.”

About Global Village Champions Foundation: Started in 1995 by Yank Barry, Global Village Champions Foundation strives to become the undisputed world leader in private, humanitarian nutrition delivery to needy persons across the globe. This is done while sustaining human life and helping to eradicate hunger from the face of the Earth. With the help of donors and notable figures such as Muhammad Ali, Gary US Bonds, and Evander Holyfield, the nonprofit has provided nearly a billion meals to the hungry around the world. Learn more about Global Village Champions Foundation: http://www.gogvc.com.

#yankbarryfoundation #philanthropist #yankbarry

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eatingyarndraws · 3 years

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and yet another one for my project, this time meet evander (he/him)!

#firestorm #firestorm evander #my art #i used to put some content for him ages ago #everything forgotten #dont look for it #two more and im back to regular fanart #and ocs stuff #i read exile so #i need to draw

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feralandmoonstruck · 3 years

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WIP INTRO

DNI IF UNDER 18

Title: Seasons Lost

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 18+

Themes/Tropes: Found family, friends to lovers, enemies to friends to lovers, mutual pining, curses, queer romance.

Warnings: Alcohol/drug use, bdsm. All scenes will be shared with relevant warnings and tags. You can always ask me to tag additional warnings if needed.

POV: Third person, multiple pov

Main Characters: Evander Makore, Bellamy Cathaire, Valeria Roothorn

About:

Prince Evander Makore never wanted to be king, but as the only son he knew he could never be so lucky. At twenty-eight he was given his first, and last, taste of freedom. One year, spent among the people, to confess his feelings for his closest friend and personal knight, Bellamy Cathaire, before he took the throne.

Bellamy knew he was running out of time to spend with the only man he had ever loved. Everything would be different the following year when Evander became king. Bellamy was ashamed of it, but if he had a way to pause time, to make a faerie bargain, to do anything to extend his time with the prince he would do it.

It seemed that their wishes might come through after an unexpected trip through a faerie ring brought them to an exiled faerie woman named Valeria. She had been willing to make a bargain with each of them, but faerie bargains often came with unexpected rewards.

#wip intro #my wip #seasons lost #my writing #writeblr community

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therucrap · 4 years

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The RuCrap: Season 13 episode 2!

Holler at me I know you know me! Holler at me I know you know me! Episode 2 of the RuCrap has arrived! Once again please help out a writer in the pandemic by sharing & following! Enjoy!

We crawl back into RuPaul’s tangled web of elimination fuckery where we left off in Porkchop’s Loading Deck with the dejected Denali, Tamisha Iman, Joey Jay, Rosé, Kahmora Hall, Utica, and Elliott with 2 T’s who must now begrudgingly vote to put one of these complete strangers out of her misery! It’s a tie between wide-eyed carpool mom Elliott and neon sock puppet Utica and Ru bellows over the PA like the evil middle school principal that she is to inform her pupils that they must now vote between the two super-losers. Ultimately Elliott with 2 T’s becomes Elliott with 2 eliminations and it’s the final heartless slap of a drawn out and unreasonably brutal elimination even for Lord Ru’s medieval standards but we’re 13 years into this big gay carnival of trauma and Stockholm Syndrome is in full effect so let’s quickly move on, sympathize with our captors, and for God’s sake never return to Porkchop’s haunted She Shed ever again!

It’s day 2 and our previous winners GottMik, Lala Ri, Symone, Olivia Lux, Kandy Muse, and Tina Burner burst into the Werk Room none the wiser of the fate of the fallen and are greeted by Ru who wastes no time shaking things up by announcing that a new queen will be joining them and before the girls can even process... in walks Elliott with two T’s! Yes that’s right! After a full episode of push and pull with the drag poltergeist our poor Carol Anne is spit back into the competition covered in ectoplasm, her weary eyes now holding the unfathomable secrets of the other side, and once again we’ve taken the scenic route on one of RuPaul’s notorious twists that brought us right back to square one! But what would this winding shaggy dog joke of a premiere wrench be without our evil mastermind shoe-horning in a sappy life lesson? Ru momentarily softens to take us down memory lane and celebrate first-eliminated queens who went on to become superstars and explains that the moral of the fairy tale is “Don’t let anyone make you feel like a loser” which is ironic coming straight from the diabolical puppet master who determined Elliott a loser last week and then sent her to a small storage crate backstage to be called a loser two more times by her fellow competitors. It’s like Mike Tyson popping into Evander Holyfield’s dressing room after their fight to tell him that he could learn a thing or two about not feeling like he just had his ear bitten off. I haven’t been this confused by the manipulative rationale of an egomaniac since Shangela tried to justify going on vacation to Puerto Vallarta in a pandemic to sell $10 scented hand sanitizers in hotel lobbies. Ru tells our newly revamped winner’s circle to prepare to hit the runway to showcase a ladylike daytime look and a whorish campy nighttime look and like that they’re off!

Our models gussy up at the makeup stations and resident shit-stirrers Re-Tina George and Kandy Weiners greet Elliott with folded arms, bizarrely speculating about her intentions in returning (um... because RuPaul told her to?) and calling her “Elliott the Spy” (oh Golly) as if they aren’t all just prey in RuPaul’s Most Dangerous Game. Lest we forget that Elliott has cheated death twice already and instead of letting their poking rile her up she plays on Kandy’s paranoia. When Kandy expresses her excitement in finally being a Ru girl like her sisters, Elliott bluntly notes that historically queens related to past contestants haven’t faired well in the competition. Instantly frustrated by this valid counter-point, Kandy grumbles under her breath at the audacity of someone challenging her advanced wit and bless us all because a rivalry has begun!

We head to the blackbox runway for America’s Next Top Trauma where Ty-Ru Banks, Jan-chelle Dicken-sage, and Nigel Matthews are perched awaiting this year’s installment of the world’s tiniest fashion show which serves as much of a OMG-Yas-Queen showcase of fashion excellence as it does an ominous warning of what fashion storylines we’ll be bludgeoned over the head with. The trends this season are Olivia Lux’s Polly Pocket purses and whether we like it or not Tina the Heat Miser is going to is going to be dressed in a combination of orange, red, and yellow until every last VH1 viewer has fully gotten the pun in her name, taste be damned. As for the rest of our fashion darlings — GottMik and Symone are unpredictable couture shape-shifters who ace the showcase, confident Kandy shows that audacity is her strong suit, Elliott does decently but plays it safe, and Lala borders on mall fashion show.

Ru informs the queens they’ll be penning verses for and performing her catchphrase conduit Condragulations. Professional dancer Elliott proves her worth by stepping forward to save an otherwise unproductive rehearsal but things grind to a halt when it’s time to choreograph GottMik’s verse which begins “GottMik - was born a girl baby!” Mik (who later clarifies that she/her/hers pronouns are to be used in the drag context and he/him/his otherwise) instantly freezes and tells us in confessional that she hasn’t told her transition story to the group and didn’t consider the fact that this proclamation would be blaring loudly on the runway before she had the chance. The moment is clearly visceral for the usually unshakable Mik but the preoccupied group is mostly unaware and is more concerned as to why the now distracted Mik is unable to learn the routine.

It’s challenge day and the queens begin painting! Mik comes out as trans to a comforting Olivia while camera hogs Kandy and Tina continue to go full Red Scare on Elliott who they believe was sent back into the competition to spy on them... whatever that could possibly mean. When the topic turns to the competition almost everyone identifies the already well-established Mik as their biggest threat and I would have to agree.

We hit the Main Stage where director/ choreographer Jamal Sims joins the judges in an outfit that suggests he also moonlights as a matador. Condragulations goes off mostly without a snag and Lala, Tina, Kandy, and Elliott deliver the most confident verses, Olivia steals the fashion spotlight once again, and Kandy fumbles the choreography. The runway theme is Lamé You Stay and the judges favor Mik, Olivia, Symone, and Tina but still praise Lala, Kandy, and Elliott for an overall impressive week and Ru announces that Olivia and Symone are the top two and no one is in the bottom. They deliver synchronized, playful versions of Break My Heart by Dula Peep but it’s Symone who snatches the $5,000 tip making her our first big winner of the season!

That brings us to the end once again with a full cast but that can only mean one thing... poltergeist is getting that much hungrier! Next week our exiled queens from Pork Chop Island will return for their own premiere! Share the RuCrap if you enjoy and I’ll see you on the other side of the TV, Carol Anne!

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voices-ringing-out · 4 years

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Just my updated muse list again, but this time typed out instead of in screenshots for @theirvoices and anyone else who had a hard time reading the names from the pictures last night. <3

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1. Beetlejuice (Broadway)

2. Jack ‘Cowboy’ Kelly (Broadway/Disney - Newsies)

3. Louis ‘Kid Blink’ Ballatt (Broadway/Disney - Newsies)

4. Sean ‘Spot’ Conlon (Broadway/Disney - Newsies)

5. Angel (Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel)

6. Rupert Giles (Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel)

7. Spike (Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel)

8. John Casey (Chuck)

9. Max Navarro (The Cleansing Hour; semi-OC)

10. Chas Chandler (Constantine/DC)

11. John Constantine (Constantine/DC)

12. Leonard Snart (DC)

13. Mick Rory (DC)

14. Carlos De Vil (Disney/Descendants)

15. Jay Nazari (Disney/Descendants)

16. Seamus McTiernan (Disney/Descendants; semi-OC)

17. 9th Doctor (Doctor Who)

18. 10th Doctor (Doctor Who)

19. 11th Doctor (Doctor Who)

20. Jack Harkness (Torchwood/Doctor Who)

21. Owen Harper (Torchwood)

22. Annwyl O’Shea (Fandomless OC; technician/hacker for NOVIS, an investigative agency for all things paranormal/bizarre)

23. Arisso Carnar (Fandomless; OC; right hand man and torturer for an evil overlord)

24. Beck (Fandomless; OC; ghost and poltergeist with no memory of his life when he was alive)

25. Dai Jones (Fandomless; OC; researcher and agent of NOVIS)

26. David Wainwright (Fandomless; OC; professor at a small town college)

27. Felix Evander (Fandomless; OC; novelist and loving father to four adopted children)

28. Hades (Fandomless; semi-OC; god of the underworld)

29. Jacob Graham (Fandomless; OC; detective for the NYPD)

30. Kai Seaboldt (Fandomless; OC; monster hunter working with Magnus Ruskin)

31. Kelly ‘Oz’ Oswald (Fandomless; OC; werewolf on the run from his family pack)

32. Kenneth Sinclair (Fandomless; OC; a baker in a small town)

33. Kiegan Mitchell (Fandomless; OC; down on his luck and trying to make a life for himself)

34. Magnus Ruskin (Fandomless; OC; monster hunter working with Kai Seaboldt)

35. Mercury Moors (Fandomless; OC; changeling and dimension jumper)

36. Orion Callahan (Fandomless; OC; werewolf and part of a motorbiker gang known as the Lost Boys)

37. Poseidon (Fandomless; semi-OC; god of the oceans)

38. Rani MacKenna (Fandomless; OC; historian and NOVIS agent)

39. Raphael Casmere (Fandomless; OC; softspoken artist)

40. Remiel ‘Remi’ Lynxwiler (Fandomless; OC; the boy who can see what lurks on the other side of the mirrors)

41. Shale Kinsley (Fandomless; OC; vampire and exiled from his coven because he married Kelly - a werewolf)

42. Soren Melnuos (Fandomless; OC; a budding mage and lover of music)

43. Teagan Woods (Fandomless; OC; an aspiring filmmaker making a documentary of haunted places in the US)

44. Jayne Cobb (Firefly)

45. Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)

46. Gareth Hart (Galavant)

47. King Richard (Galavant)

48. Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls)

49. Stanford Pines (Gravity Falls)

50. Remus Lupin (Harry Potter)

51. Severus Snape (Harry Potter)

52. Sirius Black (Harry Potter)

53. Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones)

54. Bill Denbrough (IT)

55. Richie Tozier (IT)

56. Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)

57. Boromir (Lord of the Rings)

58. Audrey Jensen (MTV’s Scream)

59. Noah Foster (MTV’s Scream)

60. Ardeth Bay (The Mummy)

61. Rick O’Connell (The Mummy)

62. Ricky Linderman (My Bodyguard; semi-OC)

63. Captain Hook/Killian Jones (Once Upon A Time)

64. Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold (Once Upon A Time)

65. Lincoln Burrows (Prison Break)

66. LJ Burrows (Prison Break)

67. Michael Scofield (Prison Break)

68. Theodore ‘T-Bag’ Bagwell (Prison Break)

69. Nathan Wallace/The Repo Man (Repo! The Genetic Opera)

70. The Graverobber (Repo! The Genetic Opera)

71. Bigby Wolf (The Wolf Among Us)

72. Georgie Porgie (The Wolf Among Us)

73. Jim Moriarty (Sherlock)

74. Billy Hargrove (Stranger Things)

75. Jim Hopper (Stranger Things)

76. Steve Harrington (Stranger Things)

77. Bobby Singer (Supernatural)

78. Cain (Supernatural)

79. Castiel (Supernatural)

80. Crowley (Supernatural)

81. Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

82. Gabriel (Supernatural)

83. Lucifer (Supernatural)

84. Sam Winchester (Supernatural)

85. Alan J. Hill (Until Dawn; semi-OC)

86. Josh Washington (Until Dawn)

87. Cecil Palmer (Welcome To Night Vale)

88. Josh Crayton (Welcome To Night Vale)

89. Eli The Devi (Xena: Warrior Princess)

#updated muse list #temporary until i get my muse page under control sdfljsgh

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anonnymouse75 · 4 years

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I got on Twitter to check out the trending for me stuff and was immediately greeted with two things:

TommyInnit is trending because he’s about to be exiled from L’Manberg

And Evander Kane is trending because he might be fighting Jake/Logan Paul.

#hockey #minecraft #when worlds collide #please let Evander Kane fight one of them #that would be hilarious

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Descendants OC Masterlist E-K

( A - D ) ( L - N ) ( Q - Z ) ( Hiatus )

Name: Princess Edie

Story: Storybook Endings

Parents: Prince Edward & Nancy Tremaine

Face Claim: Ciara Bravo

Name: Eliane

Story: Into The Unknown

Parents: Redacted

Face Claim: Abigail Cowen

Love Interest: Harry Hook

Name: Elise Charming

Story: Enchanted

Parents: Prince Charming & Cinderella

Face Claim: Sabrina Carpenter

Love Interest: Evie; Ben & Evie

Princess Elizabeth Victoria Isabelle Katherine Grace Regina Alexandria James – more affectionately known as Elise Charming – had been raised on one simple lesson. Have courage and be kind. And for sixteen years, she had lived by those words. Alongside her twin brother Chad and their best friends Ben and Audrey, Elise had been picture perfect royalty. The four of them were perfectly sweet, perfectly charming, perfectly… well, perfectly perfect. But when Ben, weeks away from his coronation, decides to bring over four Villain Kids from the Isle of the Lost, their perfect group falls apart. Elise is sure that they can get through it, that they can hold their heads high and rebuild their perfect friendship, and that everything will be okay. And then the Villain Kids arrive in Auradon, and the most beautiful girl in the world steps out of the limousine.

Name: Enola Sid

Story: Hymn For The Exiled

Parents: Yen Sid & The Enchantress

Face Claim: Madison Iseman

Love Interest: Ben & Harry Hook

Name: Evander Königin

Story: The Weight Of Living

Parents: Evil Queen & King Richard

Face Claim: Taylor Zakhar Perez

Love Interest: Topher Charming

Evander Grimhilde was highly aware of the fact that his life was not normal, even for the isle of the lost. Mostly, he knew, it was because he was the first child born on the Isle. The blueprint, the model, the test subject. He was born before the villains had the idea to use their children as soldiers to defend their turf, before they decided that survival and gaining power was more important than planning for getting off the Isle. No, where his kids — and they were; every child on the Isle was his. His to protect, his to raise, his to love the way their parents never were — were raised to be their parents’ henchmen, Evander was raised to be king. He learned history and finances, potions alongside politics, everything there was to know about the United Kingdom of Auradon and every kingdom within it. Evander was as qualified to be a king as anyone could hope to be, except for one teensy tiny little detail: he still lived on the Isle.

At least until Prince Ben turned 16 and made his very first proclamation as king — to bring five children from the Isle to Auradon. His sister, her crew, and Evander himself. With his kingdom finally within reach, Evander’s destiny is his for the taking. The only problem is that Evander isn’t actually sure if he wants his destiny; especially once he meets Topher Charming.

Name: Fern The Fairy

Story: Love Struck

Parents: Rosetta

Face Claim: Paulina Chavez

Name: Finley Rider

Story: Stolen Heart

Parents: Rapunzel and Flynn Rider

Face Claim: Virginia Gardner

Love Interest: past Ben; Jay; eventual Ben & Jay

Finley Rider – Princess Finley Fitzherbert – was all set to live a fairytale life. She was the heir to the throne of Corona, her parents’ pride and joy, and betrothed to her best friend, Prince Benjamin. But when a ten year old Finley gets bored at a museum gala and decides to see how many artifacts she can lift without getting noticed, everything changes. When the Beast King catches her stealing Jafar’s staff, he loses his temper. The child is sent to the Isle, Corona breaks ties with Auradon, and Ben loses his best friend.

On her first day on the Isle, Finley gets caught stealing a bracelet off of Lady Tremaine. But rather than tell the woman, the boy introduces himself as Jay, son of Jafar, and offers Finley a partnership. Their alliance soon grows into a friendship, and Jay introduces Finley to the other VKs, bringing her into their team. The five of them rule the island with ease, causing trouble wherever they go. It isn’t perfect, but Finley has learned to move on from Corona, and from Auradon. So of course, that’s when Prince Ben makes his first royal proclamation; bringing children of the Isle to Auradon. The daughter of Maleficent, the son of Jafar, the daughter of the Evil Queen, and the son of Cruella De Vil. And the princess of Corona.

Name: Fitz Rider / Fraser Fitzherbret

Story: Stolen Heart

Parents: Rapunzel and Flynn Rider

Face Claim: Matt Cornett

Love Interest: Harry Hook; TBD

Name: Gilly Upland

Story: The Good Witch

Parents: Glinda The Good

Face Claim: Maisie Peters

Love Interest: Ben & Harry Hook

Gilly Upland knew that good and evil were more complicated than anyone liked to admit. She knew about the fraudulent wizard, the so-called pillar of good in Oz. She knew about the Wicked Witch, her namesake, a girl who’d only ever wanted to help those that society ignored. She knew about the Winnie Prince, a captain of the guard who’d tried to save the woman he loved and was killed for it. And she knew about her own mother, superficial and self absorbed who’d betrayed her best friend because she couldn’t refuse the love and admiration it promised. Who, in memory of that friend, strived every day to be worthy of the title Glinda The Good, who only wanted to make something worthwhile out of so much horror and tragedy.

Every year, King Adam of Auradon invited Gilly to Auradon Prep. A gesture of goodwill, he would call it, a bridge between their lands. Gilly wasn’t stupid, she knew what it really was: an excuse to spy on Oz, a witch alone in his kingdom. Power. Control. Gilly knew far too much about the Wonderful Wizard and Madame Morrible to fall for such an obvious trap. But then the whispers came. The prince, soon to be king, was preparing for his very first proclamation, a gesture so big that even Oz knew what was coming. And if Prince Ben intended to bring children of villains to Auradon, the closed-minded, self-proclaimed land of good, then they would need someone on their side. Someone who wouldn’t be caught up in labels, parentage, or prejudice. They would need a good witch looking out for them.

Name: Gloria Gothel

Story: Mother Knows Best

Parents: Mother Gothel

Face Claim: Melissa Barrera

Gloria Gothel didn’t care about politics. Not on the isle, not in Auradon. She didn’t care about running the biggest turf, about having the strongest crew, she only cared about survival. She had gotten it wrong once, had made the rookie mistake of getting attached to other people, of caring about something beyond covering her own ass, but it was a mistake that she would never make again. But when an invitation comes for her to go to Auradon along with Maleficent’s daughter and her crew, Gloria finds herself at a crossroads. Once again she has a choice to make, between looking out for her own self interest or taking care of the family she’d never meant to find.

Name: Gregor Gothel

Story: Don’t Blame Me

Parents: Mother Gothel

Face Claim: Dominic Sherwood

Love Interest: Hannah Westergaard

Name: Grier Königin

Story: World Burn

Parents: Evil Queen & Prince John

Face Claim: Marina Moschen

Name: Griffin

Story: Love Struck

Parents: Grumpy

Face Claim: Joshua Bassett

Love Interest: Viatrix

Name: Hannah Westergaard

Story: Don’t Blame Me

Parents: Hans Westergaard

Face Claim: Kat McNamara

Love Interest: Gregor Gothel

As far as children of the Isle went, Hannah Westergaard was pretty standard. Abusive father, no known mother, and no special talents of abilities whatsoever. As much as she hates to admit it, she’s boring by the Isle’s standards, so why on earth is Prince Ben inviting her to Auradon? And more importantly, why does it seem like maybe she isn’t quite as boring as she’s been lead to believe?

Name: Harley Hook

Story: Lost Girl

Parents: Captain Hook

Face Claim: India Eisley

Love Interest: Jay; possible endgame Jay & Gil

Harley Hook was a pirate, through and through. Always at her brother’s side, always with Uma and the crew, always near her beloved Gil, Harley Hook was a pirate. And as a pirate, she absolutely hated Mal’s gang. They thought that they were so much better than anyone, just because of Mal’s mom - big whoop, it’s not like Maleficent could even use magic on the Isle. So yeah, Harley hated the VKs, her loyalty was to the crew, and she was never seen away from Harry or Gil. And then the princeling decides to bring children of some of the worst villains to Auradon: Mal, Evie, Jay, Carlos. And Harley. Harley couldn’t be more furious at being taken away from her crew, or at being sent to Auradon, or at being forced to work with the VKs to get Fairy Godmother’s wand. But she knows that if she wants to get back to the Isle, back to her family, she needs that barrier down as much as they do. She’s just not sure that they can cooperate long enough for that.

Name: Harmony Of Atlantica

Story: Carved Out Of The Sea

Parents: Ariel & Prince Eric

Face Claim: Kaya Scodelario

Love Interest: Harry Hook

Princess Harmony was a youngest child’s youngest child, she knew that she would never be anything special. Her mom was Ariel, and her sister Melody had united their parents’ kingdoms. Harmony was nothing in comparison. So Harmony went on her own adventures, swimming as far as she could and discovering the wonders of the world outside of Atlantis. She’d heard of the Isle of the Lost of course, everyone had, but she never planned on finding it. She never planned on swimming through the barrier, or on finding out that she would no longer be able to turn into a mermaid when she did, or on never being able to swim back across. And so, Harmony grew up on the Isle along with the children of the villains. She befriended pirates and princesses and everything in between, and she almost forgot about life in Atlantis. And then the future king summons four of the children of the Isle to Auradon, and Harmony knows that she has to seize her only chance at returning to her home, even if it means leaving behind her partner - in crime and in love - Harry Hook.

Name: Helena

Series: Time For Tea

Story: Long Live the Queen

Parents: Hades & Persephone

Face Claim: Teagan Croft

Love Interest: Queenie Hearts

Living on the Isle wasn’t easy, but there was something particularly difficult about it for a goddess. Her dad couldn’t be kept on the Isle–they’d tried, no one died anymore, he was allowed to return to the Underworld. But when Helena was born, she was cast away to join the rest of the Villains and their children, forced to fend for herself. Being a goddess had its advantages too, she was able to survive and rise up with no problem. Soon she was the right hand to the newest queen, and hell would freeze before she let anyone take that away from them.

Name: Hero Olympios

Story: Go The Distance

Parents: Hercules & Megara

Face Claim: Rachel Zegler

Name: Honey La Bouff

Story: Impossible Dreams

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Parents: Lottie LaBouff

Face Claim: Meg Donnelly

Love Interest: Ben & Chad

As if being raised by a single mother, with a father who passed away before she was born, didn’t make her enough of an oddity, Honey La Bouff was one of the only students at Auradon Prep who wasn’t the child of a prince, princess, or hero. But despite being looked down on by most of the student body, Honey was best friends with the two most popular boys in school; Prince Ben and Chad Charming. Honey and Chad had always seen it as their responsibility to look out for their more naïve best friend, and when Ben decides to bring five Villain Kids to Auradon – a decision that both Honey and Chad had been pushing for since they were still in their single digits – they know they’ll have their work cut out for them. But, all things considered, the VKs seem to be adapting well, and Honey is excited to have them in Auradon. Or she was, until she takes an extremely suspicious cookie away from Ben and finds herself the victim of a long since forbidden magical roofie.

Name: Princess Isabelle

Story: Tale As Old As Time

Parents: Belle & The Beast

Face Claim: Danielle Campbell

Love Interest: Audrey

By all rights, Princess Isabelle should be next in line for the throne of Auradon. She was the firstborn child of the king, after all, and much more politically minded than her twin brother. But her father, beast that he was, had no intention of ever letting her take her rightful place as queen. But Belle is her mother’s daughter, and has no intentions of giving up, she just needs a new plan. And then Ben decides to bring children of the Isle to Auradon, and Isabelle finds herself in the perfect position to get exactly what she’s always wanted. If only she can go through with it.

Name: Isadora Darling

Story: Second Star To The Right

Parents: Jane Darling

Face Claim: Olivia Holt

Love Interest: Harry Hook

Name: Kate Turner

Story: Hoist The Colours

Parents: Elizabeth Swann & Will Turner

Face Claim: Grace Van Dien

Name: Keira Knave

Series: Time For Tea

Story: Long Live the Queen

Parents: Knave Of Hearts

Face Claim: Alba Baptista

Name: Keto Jones

Story: Daughter Of Death

Parents: Davy Jones

Face Claim: Natalie Alyn Lind

Love Interest: Harry Hook

Name: Killian Knave

Series: Time For Tea

Story: Long Live the Queen

Parents: Knave Of Hearts

Face Claim: Freddy Carter

Name: Princess Kyra

Story: Ties That Bind

Parents: Jasmine & Aladdin

Face Claim: Naomi Scott

Love Interest: Jay

#masterlist #randomestfandoms construction #descendants oc

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sealrock · 9 months

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Aldgoat - What tradition, either ancestral or personal do you adhere to no matter what?

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27. Aldgoat - What tradition, either ancestral or personal do you adhere to no matter what?

despite their differences, patroclus and evander have one thing in common: honoring the dead. the boys, as with many of their family members, are descended from a dalmascan heretic who was exiled from the motherland for following the sect of germonique, a cult who went against the light of kiltia. most of ul'dah are adherents to nald'thal, but the small percentage of dalmascan citizens who made their way here enjoy their religious services without much scrutiny

one of the standard practices of the sect is to offer prayer and libation to those who passed on to the high seraph's heavenly home at every beginning of the week just before sunrise. you'll often find the brothers in the temple this way. patroclus' faith has never wavered, though evander begins to doubt if this stuff even works now that he's older

their aunt cassandra used to come to the temple with them, but she stopped coming by after several years had past since her sister and brother-in-law's deaths. paris refused to be initiated into the sect, so it's up to the brothers to keep the spirits of their parents content and at peace (while he didn't know it then, evander was giving prayer to his birth father as well)

ty for the ask @uldahstreetrat!

#inbox #uldahstreetrat #the fact we know next to nothing about dalmascan culture in ff14 makes me mad #so i'm creating stuff as i go along #q.#meta.

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battlearchived · 6 years

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MALEFICENT’S BACKSTORY

so ouat didn’t really give us much background for maleficent so i’ve made up her history based on @hellhaths canon for regina and it’ll make a lot more sense if you read this first

maleficent comes from one of eight royal bloodlines, the magick possessed by her family allowing them to shift into dragons. the dragons of her blood are typically placid unless provoked, king argos being no different, he signed the pact of the eight kingdoms in interest of protecting mist haven and keeping the land as peaceful as possible. it was only when his heir came into power that the problems started — dardanos took the pact as an insult, feeling that the other seven bloodlines had no right to call themselves equal to dragons, he called a meeting of his kin to try and garner the support needed to discard the pact. enraged when he didn’t get it, dardanos came up with a way to steal all the magick of his living bloodline for himself, becoming the largest / strongest dragon in their history, intent on destroying the other lines single handedly. with the help from the other royal lines and their heirs, his brothers were able to vanquish him but their magick wasn’t returned to them as they assumed it would be. for six hundred years their ability to become dragons was lost, the magick of their blood becoming more old legend than anything though they tried not to allow the truth to found out by outsiders. this loss of magick they were born into affected the mental state of coming generations, leaving them a little unhinged and prone to violence and anger. each generation becoming more and more resentful of the predecessors that had turned against dardanos.

talk of war and rebellion was a constant despite their ability to keep up a benevolent public image and slowly and quietly they began to do what they could to regain their magick — king fearghas even deciding to marry a faery in hopes her magick would help his sons access their own, and to an extent he was right. together they had three children; iapetos, maleficent and evander, the eldest of which was much like his father — cruel, heavy-handed and vengeful. maleficent, being the first woman born to her line in centuries was often looked at as lesser than her two brothers and all but written off from a young age, leaving her a lot of free time whilst she waited for the day either her father or her brother would try and marry her off. in this time, maleficent studied the dragons of old and the magick they possessed, feeling more kinship to them than she ever had her living family. whilst it wasn't encouraged in her the way it was in her brothers, maleficent was able to teach herself to use magick in private, her power growing with her as she came of age.

the event that would shape maleficent as a villain in the same vein as her great grandfather, took place not long after her eighteenth birthday — an unrequited love toward niobe, iapetos’ mistreated wife eventually causing her resentment for what her family had become to boil over. she was surrounded by pathetic insipid little men trying to claim the greatness of dragons they could never hope to compare to, men that thought themselves superior to all around them and after years of taking their insults and degradation, it was one remark she could not forgive. one that she can no longer remember, but one that caused such anger she was able to summon all the magick of her bloodline to transform into a dragon for the first time, killing more than half her family in a breath of fire. a sin she justified as an act of protection — protection of the pact, their legacy and the woman forced to share her brother’s bed. only when she returned to her human form, it wasn’t gratitude she was met with.

‘ MONSTER ! ’ chants and cries filled scorched halls, and at first she tried to explain but when she spotted a particular face in the crowd against her, maleficent changed her mind. she would not beg for forgiveness or acceptance. she would not kneel for those who would swear loyalty to pigs but take delight in demonising her. if they wanted a monster they could have one. christening herself mistress of all evil, maleficent split her kingdom, claiming the mountain fortress for herself and leaving the rest for the new king, evander. for centuries she lived in what could be called a voluntary exile studying magick and creating spells and curses of her own. descendants of evander treating her with a fearful respect, dutifully inviting her to every wedding and christening whilst assuming and hoping she’d elect not to attend. all until brain rose.

just over four hundred years after maleficent’s break off of the family, briar rose came into power and decided to make this unspoken exile more official. a gentle natured woman, briar wanted to reshape the image of their bloodline and their kingdom by erasing as much of their ugly history as she could.

when news reached maleficent that she planned not only officially banish her but destroy records of their lineage, maleficent could not stomach the insult and decided to act against her line once again to prevent their history from being rewritten through rose coloured glasses. creating a sleeping curse, she decided torture would be a more fitting punishment for this crime than death. her plan was foiled however, by true loves kiss which would ultimately lead to the battle in which maleficent would burn down a forest and lose her ability to transform.

with her power so depleted, maleficent couldn’t do much to stop briar’s efforts and she all but succeeded in removing their family’s fiery history from record, maleficent becoming little more than a whispered myth. a folks tale people of the kingdom would tell their children, only those who have seen the tree that still stands burning in what was once a forest knowing the truth.

#maleficent : headcanons.#maleficent : about.#finally finds a reason for her to curse briar other than the theory she was in love w herbc i hate that one

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The 15 Greatest Heavyweight Fighters of all time.

The 15 greatest heavyweights of all time

1) Muhammad Ali- The greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Like George Foreman, he went through 2 incarnations. The first one was the fastest heavyweight of all time, whose defense made him untouchable. Ali had good power, but not great power, but he would fire off his punches like a machine gun. Most times, like in the case of Brian London, they were overwhelmed. Then the exile occurred and Ali came back three years later. He was slower of hand and foot, but stronger, and Ali used this strength in the clinch. Ali could also hit harder, and he discovered he had an iron chin. Ali’s chin is one of the marvels of the sports world, and no one could take a punch like Ali. Ali used this durability to not only survive fights, but to win them. Ali is the greatest because he always found a way to win using different styles.

2) Joe Louis- Joe Louis was deadpan, silent, and one of the greats. He was the greatest puncher of all time, and put together his combinations with speed, power and accuracy. His punching technique was as pure as Arthur’s Excalibur, which stayed with him to the end.

Louis was also no slouch at defense. Nat Fleischer ranked him with Jack Johnson in terms of defensive technique. His style started with the crouch and the jab. Louis fought out of the Blackburn crouch and used his jab to break down opponent’s defense while setting up his offense. He was perfection on offense, and opponents could not afford to make the same mistake twice. Louis was 10-0 in rematches with 9 knockouts and of his 25 title defenses, 22 were knockouts.

3) Jack Johnson- Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion, and as a result, there was a move to get a White Hope. But for the most part, these people were wasting their time. Johnson had probably the best heavyweight defense, and mastered most of the defensive techniques such as ducking, blocking, parrying, slipping and leaning back. Johnson also had one of the best uppercuts in heavyweight history. He would throw it from an upright position to further confuse opponents, who could not anticipate when the uppercut would land. He was the consummate counter-puncher, who made life miserable for his opponents when he was in the ring.

4) Jack Dempsey- He helped refine the swarmer style and showed how it had to be done.

He used head movement and footwork in his attacks to pressure his opponents and open them to his two-handed punching. His bob and weave technique meant that he was not hit solidly in most fights. Dempsey’s chin and recuperative ability also meant that he was always in the fight. Dempsey’s left hook is the greatest ever, and his right hand was not bad either. His constant attacks made him the heavyweight with the greatest amount of 1st round knockouts at 25. Even in defeat, he managed to knock Gene Tunney down.

5) Rocky Marciano- Marciano was like the Energizer bunny, if the Energizer bunny had boxing gloves. He was a raw novice when he came to Charley Goldman, who polished him until he was a diamond. Marciano applied non-stop pressure punching at all parts of the opponents. If the opponent covered up, then he would punch the body and the arms until the opponent yielded. Marciano is also the only undefeated heavyweight champion who retired and did not have a loss. Marciano was harder to hit than he looked. Joe Louis could not stop him from imposing his will and Ali said he hit hard, while being hard to jab. He was an all-time great.

6) Larry Holmes- Larry Holmes’ jab was an ever-present reminder that there was a higher authority in the fight. His jab is classed as one of the best ever, and it outclassed opponents. Holmes could knock an opponent out with a jab. That coupled with his speed and technique made him one of the greats. He could beat an opponent by boxing from the outside, or by using punch placement to wreck havoc on the inside. Holmes was the first word in versatility. And above all else, Holmes had a world-class chin. Holmes learned from Ali and took those skills to show the world that much of Ali’s style was still in the ring when Holmes went through the ropes.

7) George Foreman- Foreman was the tale of two careers. The first career, he emulated Sonny Liston and tried to knock out all comers with power punches especially those coming from his right hand. The second career, he took Ali as his role model and tried to set up his knockouts with patience and timing. Either one of these Foremans is a top heavyweight. When they are put together in an examination of a career he is an all time great. He was very adaptable for a slugger and could cut the ring off with impunity. And his power is one of the best, if not the best in heavyweight history. The class that Foreman is in with regard to power is one of very low attendance. His best wins are those over Frazier and Moorer more than twenty years apart.

8) Sonny Liston- Liston had the best jab in heavyweight history. His jab was a power punch and it was as if Liston had two right hands. He could also hook off the jabs and throw combinations. He combined boxing skill with brute power. Joe Louis said he would not jab with him, even though Louis had a stellar jab himself. Rocky Marciano said that he would not relish fighting Sonny Liston. Liston was also the intimidator supreme. He did not invent ring intimidation, but he perfected it. Most of his opponents, including Muhammad Ali, were scared of him. Floyd Patterson neglected strategy and went at Liston head on, and was dealt with severely like a disobedient child. Only Ali was able to overcome him when he was near his prime, and the scorecards were even until Liston quit.

9) Joe Frazier He was the candle that burned brightly before it became dark. Frazier took the swarmer style and used his strengths to become a nightmare for opposing heavyweights. Frazier worshipped at the altar of the swarmer. His bob and weave technique was among the best ever and he had a left hook that was carved from the netherworld like Thor’s Hammer. Frazier owns the best victory over an all-time great heavyweight when he defeated Muhammad Ali, and dropped him with that left hook. Underrated speed of hand and foot, a good jab, an adept ability to cut off the ring, and stamina that could not be tamed help round out the Frazier package.

10) Lennox Lewis- Lewis was the best heavyweight of his generation. Everyone Lewis fought, he won against and the two men who beat him suffered knockouts. He had the punch of a slugger, but also brought the table good hand speed, an exceptional reach, and two-fisted power. He would often look on his opponents with disdain, which hurt him when he underestimated them. But Lewis was never more formidable than against an opponent he saw as a threat, which is shown in the Tyson fight. Lewis’ right hand was one of the best of all time, and chopped down grown men with impunity.

11) Evander Holyfield- Holyfield had the soul of a warrior of ancient times brought to life inside a boxing ring. Sometimes this mentality hurt him, because he was so focused on warring that he forgot to win. He faced the best opposition of anyone besides Ali. And although he did not always win against this opposition, he always gave his best. He was a superb counter puncher and although he did not have the benumbing hitting power of Tyson, Holyfield could string together combinations that did as must damage. Holyfield’s win over Tyson was shocking, but it was the result of intense preparation and focus. Although Holyfield was not the fastest, he could move and use his movement to set up his punches.

12) Mike Tyson- Tyson was the terror that reigned in the heavyweight division. He was not only modern but ultramodern, trained to fight in ways that other heavyweights did not comprehend or fathom. He was physically gifted and that coupled with intensive training brought him to the heavyweight championship of the world. Tyson’s fights were often a question of how long the opponent would last rather than if the opponent could win. But then, Cus D’amato died and Tyson began to unrival. Tyson forgot his training, and in forgetting his training, he did not use his skillset. The head movement became stationary, the combination punching was reduced to one at a time punching, and body punching was neglected. Tyson in his second career lost as many fights as he won. But Tyson in his first career was one of the all-time greats.

13) Ezzard Charles- He was the small fish in the big sea of heavyweights who managed to rule over them as king. Ezzard Charles made 9 defenses as a heavyweight, which is a statistic that many people are unaware of. Only Jack Johnson, Tommy Burns, Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, and Joe Louis made more title defenses. He faced off against the best fighters in 3 divisions. Charles was a technician of style, and many foes found it impossible to beat him. He beat Jersey Joe Walcott and Joe Louis, and managed to give Rocky Marciano 2 of his toughest fights. He had speed, combination punching, defense, a punch, footwork and so much more. Good things indeed come in small packages.

14) Sam Langford- Langford was the best heavyweight who never won a title. He won against Joe Gans when he was young and against Tiger Flowers when he was old. The fact that he knocked out Tiger Flowers when blind further testifies to Langford’s skill and power. A large portion of Langford’s opponents ranked him as the most powerful heavyweight they had faced. These victories speak to the longevity and greatness of Sam Langford. Langford can be seen as an early prototype of Joe Louis, with a moderate crouch, combination punching, and deadly counter punching off of misses. He combined a potent offense with an impenetrable defense. Langford had it all but missed the biggest prize of the heavyweights.

15) Jim Jeffries- He was the prototypical slugger of his era, and helped developed this style from being a raw brawler. He coupled learned boxing skill with natural strength and punching power. Jeffries was the first heavyweight champion to fight from a crouch, and he was very effective with head movement. But even if a fighter was able to get to Jeffries’ jaw, he could harm his hands on Jeffries titanium chin. Jeffries beat boxer-punchers like Peter Jackson and Bob Fitzsimmons, outside boxers like Jim Corbett, and swarmers like Tom Sharkey. And except for Tom Sharkey, all of these boxers were knocked out and counted out. This speaks to the raw power that was in Jeffries veins and in his fists.

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