#hi pale fans

[ariapmdeol]

Pale (arc 2)

this is my liveblog post arc 2 thoughts and rambles! I took longer to read this arc (alas. IRL things meant i took a break in the middle), so thoughts are more scattered. Hopefully I get through Arc 3 faster? Tucking it under the cut for length, Spoiler warning!

this arc was fun!! the faerie are FANTASTIC and i love the traps. I think the whole... pulling strings to lure the story in a direction that you find interesting. All of that is SOOO fascinating to me because yes! Otherverse magic system is STRUCTURED around this... kind of half meta way of magic working. The Spirits make things stronger when they're narratively significant. Three is a powerful number and makes things STICK. If you break your oaths after you've sworn that the spirits can trust you (Awakening) then the story isn't fun anymore, and you're forsworn. Symbolism implies things both in a Narrative sense AND in an Other sense. I'm having fun :D

I like how much the Kennet trio feel like teenagers. The awkward dancing around romance and relationships sticks out to me in particular. Very 13 year old and very cute!! Their dynamics with the other kids in their grade are really interesting; I like how they have history with them. Mentioning Gabe only to have no one recognize his name is SO fun too. It separates them from their Innocent friends. I wonder how this will get worse as the story progresses? As Avery, Verona, and Lucy get more involved on the Other side of things, they'll leave the Innocent side of things behind... That division is present in Lucy's family relationships too.

Lucy's struggles are REALLY interesting. I like the layers. A bit of the way she talks makes me feel... I guess she feels very firm in her convictions. In Justice, in an Eye for an Eye, almost. Maybe not quite that extreme because. She's 13. but it's there!

Verona wanting to become an Other... Searching for an escape from the life that she's expected to live. Leaving the mundanity of ordinary life to experience something more interesting. Reading her thoughts on it during the Cat chapter was kind of bittersweet? She doesn't want to grow up or change. She'd rather have sleepovers forever.

Victor of the hungry Choir! Victor of the Hungry Choir! I have nothing to say here, I'm just really excited.

SNOWDROP. I've seen that little critter around and i love her,, I would die for her.

Interlude chapter was FASCINATING. GOD I love how the interludes so far are pushing things forward, giving insights and outsider POVs of the girls! It's so so cool!! I love how the Augurs don't know what's going on with the Kennet Trio, too. Very Very fun to Know things that the characters don't, and seeing them try to puzzle it out was fun. Nicolette doesn't know how to handle this at all! I love how fleshed out her life is too-- A lot of really fun worldbuilding details. This is typical of Wildbow's writing, but I love how many moving pieces there are.

Alexander.. This is the Augur who got Charles forsworn, right? (no need to confirm/deny this, i'm just thinking out loud).

anyways! Yeah. Pale is fun <3

[sciencebees]

Post cancelled everybody check out my new bat flip

[cicicolorao]

I forgot how much I love love LOVE LINELESS

Rayman the silly

[deliveryboysomewhatequaltoheaven]

Also I love the confirmation that Princess Iron Fan and Demon Bull King were enemies to lovers

As an aside, PIF’s celestial origins also probably explains why she and by extension Red Son both look human unlike the other demons we meet

[m-kyunie]

kneeling for prayer at the alter of You

[paintedsunshine]

murph king of dreams and his *checks notes* very alive magpie

[Image Descriptions:

Imagine 1: A digital bust portrait of Morpheus, Dream of the Endless, holding Jessamy in his hands against his chest.

Dream is a very pale white man (/anthropomorphic personification) with very messy, short-ish pitch black hair and eyebrows. Tiny stars and galaxies seem to glow in his hair. Jessamy is a Pied Crow, a medium-large iridescent black corvid with a white feathered breast and collar. She is resting peacefully within Dream’s right hand, his left stroking through her plumage. Her head is tilted upward, her beak placed underneath Dream’s jaw. Dream’s eyes are closed, and his lips slightly parted. He does not seem to be wearing clothes. The painting cuts off below his elbows.

The painting is heavily stylized with multicolored brushstrokes on highlight and shadow points. Deep, vibrant purple, turquoise and blue in shadows, soft, pastel yellow, cyan and green in highlights.

Image 2 is exactly the same, except now deep red liquid runs down Dream’s fingers to his wrists. He is still holding Jessamy. Her plumage is clean and untouched from the blood.

End ID]

[sarcasticgiraff]

Family portraits

[emry-stars-art]

Neil when he shows up to PSU vs the second Andrew gets his hands on him (and also Allison probably)

[writeouswriter]

I missed making blackout poetry, so, here’s one created from the opening page magazine reviews of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.

[Image ID: A blackout poem with the background superimposed with two silhouetted figures looking out at a starry sky. The poem reads:

It is an eminently majestic achievement,

past, present, and future,

we exist,

framed by the wonders of the cosmos

and the vastness of space.

End Image ID]

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Vegetta heard that some members of the server are scared of him and he was like "Why? I'm not even a tryhard, I was the last person to get slime armor" and I'm like... Vegetta people are already scared of you, WHY would you respond to that with "But this isn't even 1% of my true power''

[notthesaint]

hi @bluegekk0

✩｡°𝄞🎧𝄞°｡✩

Feral Pale King AU belongs to bluegekk0

The background is heavily referenced from a scene from Studio Ghibli

to anyone who didnt know what is "feral pk au"

feral pk au is an au where pale king didn’t actually die, but he was in some kind of hibernation state and was interrupted by the knight

this is the link to the comic and intro

feral pk reference

[tomdutch]

throwback to this glorious day when tom actually went outside for fun and not just for work

[niko-trash]

Pov: the theater's heating system broke so ofcourse Hammond has to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it :]

I just love drawing Kurt and Hammond being the most wholesome pair ever

Also an extra scene:

[love-toxin]

I NEED ASTARION TO PIN ME

FR THOUGH.........YOU GET IT.........i either need to be pinned after getting chased through the woods bc he's in the throes of nasty, feral bloodlust that begs to be sated, or i need him to be pinned so he can whimper & beg & moan & look up with those big, wet eyes knowing he's sooooooo lucky to be pinned beneath you and ur gonna take such good care of him <3333 kya <333 (and then he flips you over and the cycle continues HEHEHE)

[pipcoded]

belos being obsessed with creating a perfect version of his older brother that he killed is actually the most interesting part of toh, like my brain discarded all of the other characters and plot after that reveal

[crmsndragonwngss]

Silent wake as the day is burning

Slip back into my silhouette

I don’t know when the trains are running

Get me back home to hide away