#fragile future

[secondsofpleasure]

Fragile Future, 2007, designed by DRIFT / 11.2022

[sansashton]

you’ll never guess what my favorite band is right now

[zegalba]

Studio Drift: Fragile Future III (2011)

[justaz]

arthur (prince of camelot) still has to study under a tutor bc yknow uther wants him to be very intelligent before becoming king or something bc its super important idk idc anyways merlin is doing chores in his chambers while arthur is squinting at a book and merlin eventually caves and asks him what he’s reading and arthur gruffly explains that its a collection of stories from greece that make absolutely no sense so merlin asks him to read them outloud to him. arthur of course teases him and calls him an idiot and asks how he could possibly help but does as he’s asked and reads the stories to merlin as he does his chores. merlin (being crushed under the weight of destiny and tormented by the prophecies that kilgharrah spews) understands the stories almost immediately and gets all excited and starts rambling about them with arthur. arthur is glad to have someone who understands so he can give something that reflects a hint of understanding to his tutor who accepts it and moves onto the next unit of education.

the thing is, arthur finds more stories in camelot’s library and brings them up to his room to read them aloud to merlin under the guise of completing his studies but really he just wants to watch as merlin’s eyes gleam when he understands whats happening and listen to him ramble on and on about them bc he’s gay. the stories stick with merlin though and he realizes that they’re cautionary tales, that the heroes who were told too much of their future doomed themself to fulfill them - that them fighting the prophecies led to their completion. merlin takes it to heart and gives a big “fuck you” to kilgharrah before forging his own fate and helping morgana with her magic and handing out an olive branch to mordred and now everyone can live happily and peacefully in an albion teeming with magic.

[lazylittledragon]

i keep trying to think of funny/poetic ways to talk about all the things i'm feeling right now but i honestly can't so. i'm really sad about what happened with my partner. i know he was an inconsiderate prick about it and that i didn't do anything wrong and i couldn't have prevented it but i'm just really fucking sad.

[pocket-gems]

What'd be your take on Damascus Obsidian btw?

I guess more brown looking than the canon one + Homeworld outfit? If Snowflake Obsidian is able to create ice, other types of obsidian could be able to create other materials depending on what their gemstone is made of.

[canthandlethishit]

prompt: timetravel fix it (?)

Damian somehow traveled back in time and meet robin!Jason mistaking him for Dick, after a while he caught up and realized, Jason was headed out to the place he’d be taken and later be killed at the hands of joker, Damian now have to contemplate changing the timeline to save Jason or not

go wild

[hogans-heroes]

Me after the MOTA finale

My longest (spoilery) ep discussion yet under the cut:

There was…so much, this episode and I’m still raw and emotional. What a rollercoaster. Damn.

First just want to say we got some scenes we wanted like Crosby losing his shit over the locked supply room! 10/10 loved it and Rosie yelling “coca-cola” at the Russians will never not be funny.

I couldn’t breathe in the forced march. And Bucky’s state is still bad and Gale stayed so close. The prisoners getting shot by their own plane was horrible, and happened a lot. Can you imagine surviving years in a camp just to get killed like that?

The scene where the prisoners are in the train goddamn killed me i was not expecting such a sudden shift. Bucky comforting the one guy who was terrified. Them being convinced they were going to be killed and Gale and Bucky’s little exchange??? Gale saying he really did believe they would be the last two in the air, with that horrible lost expression like a kid who can’t understand? Them saying these years wpild have be hard without the other and they wouldn’t have done anything different?

Omg Gale really did say he’s “in” for an escape just to get Bucky to calm down and not get shot 😭

Gale looks so much younger with his fluffy escape hair it makes me sad, and his heartbroken look when his friend got killed…

Let’s talk about Rosie for a second. That scene of him in the concentration camp was so powerful because there was no words, nothing happening, no action/reaction like so many other films. You just sit there with Rosie and realize. Seeing that writing on the wall was…well of course there’s no words. That’s the point.

“Not even the earth that covers our bones will remember us.” The power of that statement sucker punched me and drove home even more determination to keep doing what I’m doing in historical work etc., telling these stories.

THE WAY I FLIPPED MY SHIT WHEN WE SAW THE COMMONWEALTH TROOPS IN THE LAST CAMP!!???! The Indian and Caribbean pilots??? The Sikhs!?? The Australians!!! The Algerians and French colonials??! In love

The last camp riot when the tanks showed up was SO INTENSE and amazing. And honestly the best symbolism of the show was the Nazi flag getting torn up but the mix of all nations that fought, then seeing all the different flags flying as the guys cheered.

Gale’s longing look when he saw the planes dropping food instead of bombs broke my heart. His smiles getting back in the plane and taking the food, seeing the people happy to be helped instead of scared/angry of being attacked. THIS BOY HAS MY HEART.

Bucky in the tower and in the Jeep along side Gale’s plane was TRAIN SLAM OF EMOTION MY GOD.

OF COURSE BUCKY WOULDNT LET THEM SHIP GALE’S LOCKER

Their smiles in the cockpit together, real, sweet smiles after all this time, and ending with all the planes flying away into that gorgeous sky…I have no words. It’s been such an emotional journey and was a powerful ending. I still feel like I could burst into tears any minute.

[purplebass]

I realized something when I reread A Life Erased. That Kell's mother as we've "seen" her in the short story, somehow is hinted at in bits and pieces in Lila. It's like Lila was giving hints about Kell's mother all along and his past before he was given up.

His mom gave him a knife with his real initials on it. Lila is fond of knives, and even though Lila is not her birth name, the name she tells Kell to call her after they introduce each other starts with L, just like his real surname. Those two initials on the knife make me think about the initials lovers carve on tree trunks. I've already said multiple times that knives are symbolic of their relationship, and this object is also symbolic of Kell's identity intertwining with Lila's and viceversa.

His mom was a fire magician. The first magic Lila tries to call on is fire. His mom and dad likely did illegal things like thieving and traveled on ships, because the text specifies her arms are tanned. Kell's mom has fair skin and red hair just like him, so I assume she must've been a lot under the sun to be described as tanned. Lila used to be a thief, and now she's the captain of a ship. Moreover, one of the ships Lila raids in AGOS is called the Copper Thief. Who has copper hair? Kell, but also his mom.

Perhaps we will see Kell's parents again in future tftop books.

[teenytinyapprentice]

Layclaire week: Day 3 - Gifts

a gift returned, a gift maintained

[auburnhairedwaiter]

[ The bustling sounds of the city were resonant as always, with an auburn-haired waiter awaiting customers within the serendipitous bistro, La Gueule de Saturne. Upon your arrival, he bowed slightly, gesturing towards the array of tables with a smooth, mellow voice. ]

[ Asks are OPEN! ]

"Bienvenue à La Gueule de Saturne. What would you like to have today, dear customer?"

"Aaah... I guess I should start by setting the ground rules!"

1. You gonna act inappropriately with the waiter? Don't expect to return to the bistro! Don't repeatedly cross boundaries and we're tout bon!

2. Go ahead and tell us about anything and everything! Well- not everything, but know that you can open up here if need be!

3. Please be a decent customer and speak politely and comprehensibly! None of that… skibidi thing.

4. Every now and then, we'll let the customers give requests to the waiters! Go as wild as you want so long as it's not inappropriate! (Anon magic)

5. Once again, always be a decent customer! Please be polite to the staff and your fellow diners!

"Enjoy your stay!"

~♠︎ ooc notes underneath

~♠︎ tags:

🏷table for one -> in character

🏷waiter's break -> chatting/reblog

🏷customer inquiries -> answering asks

🏷faceless customer -> anon

🏷bistro events -> anon magic

~♠︎ character tags:

🏷sous chef -> Vincent Charbonneau

🏷mi amor -> Marieanne "Manon" Vacher

🏷winter child -> Winnie Bosko

🏷summer seredipity -> Augustine Orlov

🏷white-haired dame -> Angelica

🏷guardian angel -> Forcas

🏷nouvelle embauche -> Protag

🏷blond nuisance -> Coworker

🏷sharp tongue -> Antag

🏷fragile bird -> Colleague

🏷monochrome smile -> Normal Guy

🏷future mariée -> Da Jeong Choi

🏷pretty in pink -> Myeong Hoon Dan

🏷crimson laces -> Bok Su Go

~♠︎ anon list:

… It's empty right now!

mod: @lopilofficial

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@doppelcoworker - Colleague ask blog

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[broh3m3]

buried alive inside my dreams, but it was all a fake out

[townofcadence]

Alyx is clairvoyant. He doesn't write the future into reality (that is a possibility one day but right now he doesn't even know he's writing about 'real' people and just thinks he's got a great muse that's inspiring his motivation lol). But his writing does come true for who it depicts because he is essentially chronicling their future.

But the thing is, if he doesn't write it like a fiction, he basically only gets the most generic of understandings currently. Like if he was standing outside a house that if his 'muse' entered they would get stuck in a death-loop of murder and carnage, he'd probably be like 'woah hey i think bad things might happen in there'. It's that level of vague. He also can only write about some people, not just anyone (specifically my characters).

He's new to Cadence so he hasn't met anyone that he writes about yet, just having moved there from Georgia with his roommate, Bun, but I think it'll be very interesting if he meets some of the people he's been accidentally predicting the futures of.

[angered-box]

cough cough btw....i might draw suggestive art and post it onto my alt account. if anyone cares.

[datastate]

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