#gift of council

[tinyshe]

[captain-mozzarella]

I headcanon that all of Yoda's finest teacups were made by younglings

In fact most masters of the order's finest teacups were made during crèche crafting time when the kids were learning pottery.

[raayllum]

was thinking about this line from 6x01

because there's a lot of sixes (six primal sources of magic, six horns, six moonshadow assassins), sevens (seven threes (head hand heart, scales sword blindfold, mind body spirit), and eights in TDP (eight dragonguard, etc) but not a lot of fours.

and then i realize there's four First Elves on the Cosmic Council. An ancient gift from one of each of them, maybe?

[warning-heckboop]

Some more brainstorming on the Gifted au (feedback is appreciated!)

It's established that Dev was gifted with the purpose of making up for Dale's lost childhood as a result of his never getting a fairy. As pretty much a carbon copy of Dale with a little added magic, Dev's childhood could be viewed as an exact do-over of Dale's in that sense. It's logical on paper, at least, and that's all that really matters to the Fairy Council in this case.

It would stand to reason, then, that Dev should be promised a good childhood of his own, in which another fairy being assigned to him as a god parent should also be guaranteed if deemed necessary. After all, if Dev ended up also having a miserable childhood that the Fairy Council could have easily prevented through a fairy god parent, they'd only be recreating almost the exact same scenerio that Dale went through that got them in this mess to begin with, and then what would even be the point?

So I think the Fairy Council would have had to have been aware of the fact Dev got a fairy despite being a changeling himself, and perhaps even made sure that was the case to ensure Dev--and by technicality, Dale's--happiness. But then Dev ends up fairy-less and miserable anyway. Not because he was never assigned a fairy, but because things just didn't work out with the fairy he got.

But when such a failure occurs, it's hardly every the people in charge who take the responsibility for the results. The gift the Fairy Council gave to Dale was an ultimate failure for its intended purpose, but why should they take the blame for that? Clearly it was Peri's fault that this all went wrong. Clearly his incompetence as a god parent was the issue here, nothing else.

So now, everything that's going wrong in the aftermath? That's all on Peri, too. According to the Fairy Councul, this is all his fault, and that makes fixing it his sole responsibility.

[onlyplatonicirl]

I CANT BELIEVE I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO POST THIS HERE:

CUSTOM HAND PAINTED POP FIGURINE OF ALCHEMY TCOTI WITH HIS OWN BOX TOO

One of my irls gave this to me for my birthday and I nearly started sobbing when I saw it. THEY PUT SO MUCH WORK AND LOVE INTO IT AND AUUGHHHHHHGHHHUHUHHH

I keep it on my desk and I look at it ALL THE TIME cuz he’s an ugly old fart. My friend doesn’t have tumblr or any other socials I could link you to their account unforch :(

BUT YEAH THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER EVERYONE LOOK AT IT WITH YOUR EYEBALLS RIGHT NOW

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

Excavated on Pinterest.

[selunesfavouriteprincess]

okay but it’s like. if Lae’zel was in the modern day she’d be the top of all her classes (beating Gale who would be so fucking mad about it), on every sports team, head of the prom committee, just constant after-school activities, total overachiever, and she will not accept being second place to anybody. meanwhile Karlach is on every sports team but she doesn’t really want to be, she just wants to do sport for fun and hang out with her friends, but the head of P.E. made her join because she’s good at it. unfortunately getting mad about it makes her compete better. Shadowheart grew up in a weird church and was definitely homeschooled for most of her life and is only in a mainstream school for sixth form because her weird church want her to recruit new members (she sucks at convincing people the church is good). sometimes she says fucking insane things totally seriously and everyone in the class goes what the fuck. Wyll is a very nice empathetic boy who tries to get along with everyone including Shadowheart even though she roleplays warrior cats at lunchtime and Lae’zel even though she threatens to murder him if he gets a higher grade in the debate than her, and it blindsides everyone when they find out his dad is the Head Teacher. Gale would be taking five A-Levels instead of three or four solely for the academic clout it brings him. Astarion should have graduated ten years ago and nobody knows why he’s still here. Withers is the school nurse.

[empirearchives]

The Paris Health Council

Members of the health council in 1807 + the Prefect of Police of Paris

Created in 1802 by Napoleon and his Prefect of Police of Paris, Louis-Nicolas Dubois, the Paris health council was an advisory body which assisted in the regulation of public health.

According the historian Ann Fowler La Berge, “The Paris health council was one of the most successful and influential institutions that grew out of the nineteenth-century French public health movement.”

“From 1802 to 1848 the members of the Paris health council prepared yearly anywhere from 150 to 600 reports dealing with various aspects of public health in the city of Paris and the department of the Seine.”

The 7 members of the health council in 1807:

Charles-Louis Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist and pharmacist

Nicolas Deyeux, chair of chemistry at the Paris Faculty

Guillaume Dupuytren, second surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu

Jean-Baptiste Huzard, inspector-general of the Veterinary School of France

Michel-Auguste Thouret, dean of the Faculty of Medicine and author of many works on hygiene

Jean-Jacques Leroux, succeeded Thouret in 1810 as dean of the Faculty of Medicine

Antoine-Auguste Parmentier, pharmacist and chemist, famous for his earlier research and introduction of the potato into European diets

The first five years of the organization’s existence, its role was limited to the “examination of supposedly adulterated drinks, the investigation of and reporting on epizootics, the investigation of unhealthy factories and workshops, visiting prisons and reporting on their sanitary state, and providing first-aid to the drowned and asphyxiated.”

In 1807, the organization’s responsibilities increased to cover a greater number of issues.

“The council was henceforth to report on epidemics, markets, rivers, cemeteries, slaughterhouses and slaughteryards, dumps, dissection rooms, and public baths; the council would also keep medical statistics and mortality tables, do research on the sanitary reform of public places, the perfecting of unhealthy industrial processes, and the elimination of quackery; the members were also charged with determining the best methods of heating and lighting and doing research on secret remedies.”

Source:

Ann Fowler La Berge. “The Paris Health Council, 1802-1848.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 49, no. 3 (1975): 339–52

[bibannana]

Wolf Pack Christmas Headcannon:

The clones of the pack find our that it is a natborn tradition to buy ugly jumpers/sweaters for Christmas and gift them to others.

However, in true sibling fashion they turned this into a competition. Said competition has two parts.

The first part of this competition is the award for the ugliest jumper that they can find, doesn't matter how ugly so long as it is wearable (not made of anything living or bio-hazardous thank you [rule implemented on the second christmas they celebrated when Sinker turned up with a pile of questionable material and origin and called it a jumper that wriggled]).

The second part of the competition is gifting said jumpers to Plo Koon and seeing which ones he wears most often.

As such, Plo has a collection of ugly christmas jumpers from all of his sons that he takes turns wearing with pride.

[armandslestat]

Alvaro Trevelyan ✨️

[lacystar]

I missed amongus server drama? 🥲

Qwerty no amount of update accounts could describe what happened

[raayllum]

the four ancient gifts, huh?

thoughts? furthermore: prayers?

I've been wanting to do a bit of an update to this meta about Gift Giving in TDP (written pre-S6) as a few different things (mostly as a goodbye in arc 1 and about magic in arc 2 thus far) that I think S6 contributed to our understanding of. For example, I'd speculated in that meta that due to the language used by characters, Archdragons were contemporaries of the First Elves back in the day (post-S6 followup here), and that possibly all forms magic had been a gift from the First Elves to the 'Primal' elves, with dark magic being Aaravos' to Leola's primal magic to humans. (If you want more details on this I'd rec reading the meta in full itself.) It seems like Something of that sort is roughly what happened

However, my old meta about deceptive gift giving in Greek myth / TDP means that gift giving doesn't necessarily have a positive connotation, particularly because in giving a gift, you're deciding what someone needs (even when they don't or don't want it). Callum doesn't want the gifts Rayla gives him in leaving; dark magic has ruined a lot of human lives and caused immense suffering; Rex Igneous asks for worthy gifts of sacrifice in exchange for knowledge; the cube was given to Callum as a gift, but clearly has a more complicated past / connection to Aaravos.

I do think in TDP that the world is ultimately better off with Primal magic than without, which is why Callum Exists in the narrative to create an actually fair system where everyone can access primal magic.

However, at this point in time, primal magic but be another deceptive gift given to the elves from the First Elves, and was clearly a part I'm of their Cosmic Order (destiny and all that) with also interplays with thoughts Rayla has that Callum/humans can change their fate, but she (elves) can't. Four Gifts is a weird number — if it was 5 or 6 it could be all the primals or all the primals except stars — but there Are four members of the Cosmic Council, and those gifts were ancient, so...

I'm assuming that it's one Gift from each of them, tbh. Whether those gifts are good or bad or both, we'll have to wait and see

[muse-write]

⭐

director's commentary, please!

Thanks for asking! I’ll go with my LotR fic, The Council of Elessar, since that’s my primary WIP!

It’s surprisingly difficult to decide what to talk about. I guess I’ll go with the relationship between Maglor and his healer, Findril Faelrain, a survivor of Maglor’s Kinslaying in Doriath. Needless to say, this relationship is…complicated. Findril hates Maglor and would basically do anything not to be around him, but he’s also a healer who sees a man in pain both physically and mentally. He’s capable of being cruel, but in his innermost being, Findril believes deeply in mercy even when he’d much rather strangle someone.

Maglor is perfectly fine to be an avoidant hermit who doesn’t need any more reminders of his crimes, but, well, Faramir seems intent on forcing him into situations where he has to confront them, and Findril can’t escape any better than he. I’ll keep this vague because spoilers, but grief ends up pulling them into the same orbit. And then they end up seeing parts of themselves in each other, and they start realizing how alike they are in ways that they can’t quite understand (in a similar but different way to Maglor and Faramir’s relationship), and that softens the relationship between them until something new is able to grow.

[calla-starkflowerstew11]

There are a lot of blonde elves in kotlc but ......

BUT if bronte was blonde then i just know it would cure me, i would shed tears of joy

his favorite movie would be legally blonde

but he's regina George

[parttimesarah]

My minister told me he and his wife had started watching Yonderland (I sent him a Google Drive link after they caught up on BBC Ghosts). So that means my minister will eventually have this phrase in his consciousness…

… You’re welcome, Reverend. 👍🏻

[t4r0tc4rdz]

Got around to reading The Council Of The Inevitable by @onlyplatonicirl . Its a pretty good fic; a solid story, the characters are like-able, and the lore is bussin. Drew my fav characters, Molly (RIP pretty gurl 😭😔) and Vincent (YES I KNOW IMMA GET WHOOPED BUT HES JUSTIFIED AND I WILL TAKE NO CRITICISM >:( )

Thanks for the banger story Lorel :3